Poured Over: Revisiting Colson Whitehead on The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, is a story of injustice and ultimately hope about two…
Miwa Messer
Miwa Messer is the creator, executive producer and host of our podcast, Poured Over, a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and character — readers who ask a lot of questions, just like her, a career bookseller who’s always reading.
Where to Start Reading James Baldwin
August 2nd is the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth, and though he died in 1987, his body of work…
Listen Up! Celebrating Pride on Poured Over
We just celebrated Poured Over’s third anniversary, and we’re truly excited by the LGBTQ+ writers who’ve joined us on the…
Listen Up! June 2024 on Poured Over
This month, we’re celebrating Poured Over’s third anniversary along with Pride, and the start of our favorite season: Summer Reading.…
Listen Up! Celebrating AAPI Month Year-Round
We’re a month away from Poured Over’s third anniversary, and we’re truly excited by the writers who’ve joined us on…
Listen Up! May 2024 on Poured Over
Our 400th episode lands this month (we celebrate our third birthday on June 1st) — time flies when you’re producing…
Listen Up! April 2024 on Poured Over
If you’re looking for poets on Poured Over, check out this post. April showers bring May flowers — along with…
Listen Up! March 2024 on Poured Over
In like a lion and out like a lamb: We have some terrific author interviews coming this month, some live…
Listen Up! February 2024 on Poured Over
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed…
Listen Up! January 2024 on Poured Over
Is finding a new favorite author on your list of resolutions for 2024? We’re coming up on on 350th episode…
Booksellers, Riffing: The Color Purple
Booksellers love to talk about all-time favorites and their current must-reads, the books that changed them and the books they…
Film has the Power to Bring Readers to Books: Rumaan Alam on Adapting Leave the World Behind
We’ve been huge fans of Rumaan Alam’s since we tapped his debut novel, Rich and Pretty, for our Discover Great…
And the Winner is: 2023 National Book Awards Edition
“What a great, great, great, great joy for me to be here, to share the same space with all of…
Meet the Writers on Poured Over: 2023 Book of the Year Finalists
The only thing a bookseller loves more than talking about books with another reader is talking about books with an…
Listen Up! November 2023 on Poured Over
Kicking off a month of episodes on our Poured Over podcast featuring some of our favorite award-winning authors, from a…
Some of These Things are True and Some of Them Lies. But They are All Good Stories: Reading Hilary Mantel
It was Wolf Hall, her intimate, accessible, unforgettable novel set at the court of King Henry VIII, that put Hilary…
History Shapes How We Move Through the World: Reading Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward — two-time winner of the National Book Award and 2017 MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius Grant”) — is one…
National Book Award Finalists 2023
Drumroll please… This is a big day for books and writers and readers — this year’s crop of National Book…
Listen Up! October 2023 on Poured Over
Nights are getting longer and days are getting darker, and the reading is always good… We’re featuring some of our…
Listen Up! September 2023 on Poured Over
September’s a big, big month for books by some of our favorite authors here on Poured Over. Zadie Smith kills…